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Endless Cycle Splits, Mergers, and Rebranding in the Eritrean Opposition Fragmentation Without Disappearance: The Endless Cycle of Splits, Mergers, and Rebranding in the Eritrean Opposition In the middle of last year, I committed to writing about Eritrean national unity—both in its broad historical sense and within the specific context of the diaspora‑based opposition. As I continue gathering information on the latter, I readily acknowledge that […] The post Endless Cycle Splits, Mergers, and Rebranding in the Eritrean Opposition appeared first on Awate.com.

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1 week ago

The Limits of Rupture, the Promise of Reform: Rethinking Eritrea’s Transition When a nation emerges from prolonged authoritarian rule, it eventually confronts a foundational question: do we discard everything associated with the old order and begin again from scratch, or do we recover what was valuable, repair what was broken, and build forward from there? In Eritrea’s case, that dilemma can be framed as Total Reset […] The post The Limits of Rupture, the Promise of Reform: Rethinking Eritrea’s Transition appeared first on Awate.com.

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1 week ago

Abiy’s Errand to Abu Dhabi The entire Middle East region is going through a precarious situation. Neither the sea, the dry desert, nor the mountains provide safety. High-rise buildings are the least secure. Homes have windows but are dark inside. Every morning people usually rush to open the windows to air the rooms; soon they close them to ward off […] The post Abiy’s Errand to Abu Dhabi appeared first on Awate.com.

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2 weeks ago

The Forgotten Blueprint: How Eritrea’s 2001 Party Proclamation Could Rebuild a Nation Eritrea’s political crisis did not emerge from a vacuum. It is the cumulative product of abandoned institutions, unimplemented laws, and a governing elite that systematically dismantled even the limited frameworks it once claimed to uphold. I use the term elite loosely here, for in the Eritrean context it connotes power without the accompanying attributes of […] The post The Forgotten Blueprint: How Eritrea’s 2001 Party Proclamation Could Rebuild a Nation appeared first on Awate.com.

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2 weeks ago

Habrengaqa: The Forgotten Line That Almost Divided Eritrea Many Eritreans do not know the village of Habrengaqa, halfway on the Keren–Asmara road, at the top of the escarpment—a geographical divide between the Eritrean lowlands and highlands. But that is not the source of its fame. Rather, during the turbulent years of the 1940s, the British Military Administration (BMA) of Eritrea had a devilish […] The post Habrengaqa: The Forgotten Line That Almost Divided Eritrea appeared first on Awate.com.

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3 weeks ago

The Unsung Heroes of Our National Unity There is a Tigrinya saying I learned from my mother: “One who does not do small deeds should not dream of doing bigger things—ንእሽተይ ጽቡቕ ዘይገብር፡ ዓቢ ክገብር ኢሉ ኣይሕሰብ.” In truth, it is the small, consistent acts of goodness that shape our character and ultimately determine the destiny of a people. We are, after […] The post The Unsung Heroes of Our National Unity appeared first on Awate.com.

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3 weeks ago

Perspectives on Effective Teaching: 38 Lessons Learned Perspectives on Effective Teaching: 38 Lessons Learned from 50 Years on the Job Professor Emeritus Araya Debessay 1 University of Delaware December 2025 Abstract In this manuscript, I share firsthand reflections on the successes, challenges, and lessons I experienced over my 50-year professional life as an educator at the University of Delaware. The manuscript presents […] The post Perspectives on Effective Teaching: 38 Lessons Learned appeared first on Awate.com.

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3 weeks ago

The Normalization of Self-Censorship in Eritrea When self-censorship becomes pervasive, a society forfeits more than the right to open dissent; it forfeits the very conditions that make common knowledge possible – the shared awareness of what others know, think, and believe. In such an atmosphere, individuals can no longer reliably gauge the convictions of their peers or distinguish private doubt from […] The post The Normalization of Self-Censorship in Eritrea appeared first on Awate.com.

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3 weeks ago

The Normalisation of Self-Censorship in Eritrea When self-censorship becomes pervasive, a society forfeits more than the right to open dissent; it forfeits the very conditions that make common knowledge possible – the shared awareness of what others know, think, and believe. In such an atmosphere, individuals can no longer reliably gauge the convictions of their peers or distinguish private doubt from […] The post The Normalisation of Self-Censorship in Eritrea appeared first on Awate.com.

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3 weeks ago

Power Needs Compliance Every power structure requires obedience to survive. Intelligent people question authority; obedient people preserve it. The post Power Needs Compliance appeared first on Awate.com.

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4 weeks ago

National Unity Cannot Be Rebuilt One Community at a Time Eritreans everywhere recognize the same painful truth: our nation is in deep crisis. Political paralysis, social fragmentation, and the mass flight of our youth have become defining features of our national condition. These burdens do not belong to one region or one religion. They belong to an entire people. My brother, the respected commentator Ismail […] The post National Unity Cannot Be Rebuilt One Community at a Time appeared first on Awate.com.

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1 month ago

Lies Define The PFDJ Most of the materials for this 5-part mini-series are compiled from awate.com, primarily the detailed first-hand testimony contained in Gebremedhin Zegergis’ eyewitness report. It was the first comprehensive testimonial on this subject. This series sheds light on one of the most sensitive and gray chapters in the history of the Eritrean struggle—from the late 1960s […] The post Lies Define The PFDJ appeared first on Awate.com.

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1 month ago

Trust Over Terror: Unity Built on a Minimum Agenda Accra, Ghana. The very air here reminds me of what could have been for Eritrea. In the early 1990s, two nations stood at a crossroads. Ghana chose democracy, and today it stands as West Africa’s most stable and consolidated democracy. Eritrea, tragically, chose tyranny and has become a cautionary tale of what is broken in […] The post Trust Over Terror: Unity Built on a Minimum Agenda appeared first on Awate.com.

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1 month ago

The Eritrean Opposition Must Renounce Violence — Or Remain Irrelevant The Eritrean opposition in the diaspora faces a credibility crisis so deep that it has become politically paralyzed by it. For more than three decades, it has positioned itself as the alternative to Isaias Afwerki’s rule. Yet inside Eritrea, even citizens who are profoundly dissatisfied with the government remain unconvinced that an opposition‑led transition would […] The post The Eritrean Opposition Must Renounce Violence — Or Remain Irrelevant appeared first on Awate.com.

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1 month ago

Kidane Kiflu, Welday Gidey, and Serryet Addis "Painting white over the black spots of history does not erase them; it only turns them into shades of grey" The post Kidane Kiflu, Welday Gidey, and Serryet Addis appeared first on Awate.com.

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1 month ago

Book Review: Memoir of the Eritrean Student Movement in Egypt (1950–66) In My Memoir of the Eritrean Student Movement in Egypt, 1950–1966, Abdul Kader Hagos Muhammad offers more than a mere reminiscence. He provides a participant’s chronicle of a formative but often overlooked chapter in the making of modern Eritrean nationalism: the years when young expatriate students in Cairo began translating identity into organization and organization […] The post Book Review: Memoir of the Eritrean Student Movement in Egypt (1950–66) appeared first on Awate.com.

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1 month ago

What Has Unity Got to Do with Age? Across Eritrean political discourse—especially within the diaspora—one argument has gathered unmistakable momentum: that leadership of the opposition, and indeed leadership of the Eritrean state itself, where the average age hovers around eighty, must pass to a new generation. At first glance, the demand feels not only reasonable but inevitable. Eritrea is a young nation with […] The post What Has Unity Got to Do with Age? appeared first on Awate.com.

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1 month ago

Nehnan Elamanan: The Mother of the PFDJ Isaias Afwerki’s Nehnan Elamanan manifesto transformed internal grievances into ideological justification for political separation and eventual monopoly power. The post Nehnan Elamanan: The Mother of the PFDJ appeared first on Awate.com.

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1 month ago

The Three-Nakfa Gaze: When Poverty Is Put on Display “Once deprivation is renamed ‘culture,’ it becomes protected from criticism. What appears as heritage can quietly function as camouflage, transforming material constraint into identity and turning urgency for change into an act that looks like disrespect. When citizens encounter one another primarily as curated displays, the relationship shifts from shared political belonging to observation, and empathy begins to thin.” The post The Three-Nakfa Gaze: When Poverty Is Put on Display appeared first on Awate.com.

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1 month ago

The Birth of the Mysterious Document For a long time before Nehnan Elamanan was openly distributed, Isaias and his group were clandestinely circulating parts of it and messages with similar content. Apparently, the originals of these messages were kept in Kassala [Eastern Sudan], and many of those who were part of the planning, writing, or dissemination of the propaganda of Nehnan […] The post The Birth of the Mysterious Document appeared first on Awate.com.

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1 month ago

Eritrea’s Opposition Has Run Out of Excuses For more than three decades, Eritrea’s diaspora opposition has lived in a political waiting room—issuing statements, forming committees, dissolving committees, and then repeating the cycle with new names and old habits. The pattern has become so predictable that it no longer shocks anyone. Meanwhile, the regime in Asmera has ruled with total impunity: no constitution, […] The post Eritrea’s Opposition Has Run Out of Excuses appeared first on Awate.com.

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1 month ago

نحن وأهدافنا: المخطط الأيديولوجي للانقسام الطائفي في إرتريا كان العقد الأول من نضال إرتريا من أجل الاستقلال، والذي بدأ في 1 سبتمبر 1961، فترة من التجريب والآلام المصاحبة للنمو. ولكن بحلول أواخر الستينات، تضافرت عدة عوامل — الانتكاسات العسكرية في الميدان، وتراجع الدعم العربي الإقليمي في أعقاب حرب الأيام الستة، ووصول الدعاية الإثيوبية المستمرة — لتدفع الحركة إلى أزمة داخلية عميقة. أدرك العديد […] The post نحن وأهدافنا: المخطط الأيديولوجي للانقسام الطائفي في إرتريا appeared first on Awate.com.

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1 month ago

He and his objectives The first decade of the Eritrean struggle for independence, which began on September 1, 1961, was a period of experimentation and growing pains. By the late 1960s, however, a convergence of factors—the military setbacks of the field, the draining of regional Arab support following the Six-Day War, and the reach of sustained Ethiopian propaganda—pushed the […] The post He and his objectives appeared first on Awate.com.

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2 months ago

Unity or Irrelevance: The Eritrean Opposition’s Moment of Truth Eritrea is no longer governed; it is controlled. The state has collapsed into one man. Eritrea is Isaias Afwerki. After more than thirty years in power, the ruling system has not only failed—it has stopped changing. Its thinking is stuck in the Cold War. Its actions are shaped by a past that no longer exists. […] The post Unity or Irrelevance: The Eritrean Opposition’s Moment of Truth appeared first on Awate.com.

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2 months ago

The Horn of Africa Ethnic See-Saw One of the major grievances Isaias Afwerki frequently expresses is his disdain for the ethnic-based political system the TPLF—his on-and-off ally—instituted in Ethiopia. He presents himself as morally appalled by ethnic federalism. Yet this posture obscures an inconvenient truth: Isaias was an equal stakeholder in the regional hegemony jointly exercised by the EPLF and the […] The post The Horn of Africa Ethnic See-Saw appeared first on Awate.com.

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2 months ago

From Martini to Isaias Afwerki This is edited and contextualized as a reflective opinion essay inspired by the book “Through the Eyes of a Colonizer” by Renato Paoli and translated by Ruth Tewelde There is something I keep running into whenever I read colonial-era books, and it never fails to surprise me. It’s the numbers. At the turn of the […] The post From Martini to Isaias Afwerki appeared first on Awate.com.

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2 months ago

The Echoes of Stagnation: Reclaiming Eritrea’s Future Through Internal Reckoning and Diaspora Strategy Unity has long eluded Eritreans. The word is invoked so frequently—and so casually—that it has lost much of its moral and political gravity. Yet its overuse does not diminish its necessity. Our repeated failure to achieve unity does not render it obsolete; it simply reveals that our methods have […] The post The Echoes of Stagnation: Reclaiming Eritrea’s Future appeared first on Awate.com.

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2 months ago

The Golden and the Tin The Greatest Generation A year ago, or a little longer, a female Eritrean YouTube content creator interviewed Ustaz Saleh Younis, during which he disclosed his preference for the Revolution generation, calling it the greatest generation. I had to second his preference and adopt it, mainly because there is ample evidence to support its validity. When […] The post The Golden and the Tin appeared first on Awate.com.

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2 months ago

Iska Warran, Somalis; Tread Carefully! Drawing from Eritrea’s historical experience, the essay analyzes Somalia’s collapse, Somaliland’s resilience, Ethiopia’s controversial push for sea access, and the broader militarization of the Horn of Africa. It warns against foreign interference, empty nationalism, and elite-driven politics, advocating instead for people-centered dialogue and pragmatic, incremental solutions. The post Iska Warran, Somalis; Tread Carefully! appeared first on Awate.com.

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2 months ago

Iska Warran, Somalis; Tread Carefully! Drawing from Eritrea’s historical experience, the essay analyzes Somalia’s collapse, Somaliland’s resilience, Ethiopia’s controversial push for sea access, and the broader militarization of the Horn of Africa. It warns against foreign interference, empty nationalism, and elite-driven politics, advocating instead for people-centered dialogue and pragmatic, incremental solutions. The post Iska Warran, Somalis; Tread Carefully! appeared first on Awate.com.

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